A lawyer and economist by training, Georges Ugeux has focused his entire 40 year career on the global dimensions of business, government and finance. He has a deep understanding of the international dimension of negotiations, networks and partnerships.

Prior to starting Galileo Global Advisors in 2003, Georges immersed himself in the global equity markets by heading the International Group of the New York Stock Exchange. During his 7 year tenure, he brought more than 300 non-US companies, valued at $ 2.7 trillion, to the US market.

Earlier in his career, Georges became President and Managing Director of Kidder, Peabody Europe. He was also a member of the European Corporate Executive Council of General Electric and President of the European investment Fund, a public private partnership financing infrastructure and SME projects owned by the European Investment Bank, the European Community and 77 European banks.

Georges began his career in commercial banking at Societe Generale de Banque (now BNP Paribas Fortis), where he headed the investment banking and trust division. He later became Managing Director of Morgan Stanley’s Mergers and Acquisitions department, as well as Group Finance Director at Societe Generale de Belgique, a Belgian conglomerate.

He teaches European Banking and Finance at Columbian Law School. He is a frequent public speaker and educator on global issues (at the College of Europe in Bruges and Harvard Law School).

Georges holds a Doctorate in Law and is Licentiate in Economics from the Catholic University of Louvain. He chairs, and sits on, Boards of numerous transatlantic organizations.

Since October 2008, Georges has written Demystifying Finance blog for LeMonde.fr, the leading French newspaper and this blog was recently selected by Challenges.fr as the best economic blog. he published a book "the betrayal of Finance" available on lulu.com and amazon.com. He teaches European Banking and Finance at Columbia Law School.

Entries by Georges Ugeux

The fanfare announcement of the measures taken by the European Central Bank and the PR machine that led the media to blindly endorse the idea that they would bail out Europe, stimulate growth and increase jobs would be fun if they did not demonstrate the pathetically inadequate leadership of Europe....

After months of waiting, we just received the results of the assessment of the health of Eurozone banks by their new supervisory authority: the European Central Bank. They were predictable, but the exercise has limitations which result in delivering only a partial health bulletin.

Historically, China has considered opposition as a form of crime of lese-majeste. The circumstances surrounding the Hong Kong recent opposition might be worth a better treatment than refusing a dialogue with the demonstrators.

The one-page advertisement published this week in the Financial Times by the U.S. vulture funds using the tragic situations of Argentinean families as human shields to defend their blackmailing of the Argentinean people is only one more demonstration of their despicable lack of ethics. Hidden behind an anonymous

Time has come to rename the Grand Old Party. It might be old, it certainly is no longer grand. I am hereby trying to coin the new definition of the Gross Obstructive Party. Royalties will go to charities.

There are two ways to look at the European Parliamentary elections that concluded today.

1. Political stability

Contrary to what many media will display this Monday, the results of the elections show a remarkable stability. The three major political families of Europe (Conservative, Socialists and Liberals) will likely reach...

Here we are again. Something bad happens sometimes. After declaring that we do not want to go to war, we are back to the warrior path. We just love it, don't we? Particularly the GOP who prefers to spend money on arms than on food stamps or health care. It...

Americans are not particularly praised for the subtlety of some of their favorite expressions, in particular the use of the F-word. One would, however, expect that the State Department might train its leadership in 101: Using non-offensive language in international relations.. If the course exists, Victoria Nuland, a career Senior...

The debt ceiling is an anomaly that was created to help the U.S. government fund the expenses during World War I. "The Second Liberty Bond Act of 1917 included an aggregate limit on federal debt as well as limits on specific debt issues," says a study from the...

This is the strong statement that opens "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act." The remaining 840 pages are basically there to restrict that "welcome to America" tradition and weaken this...

In the post-crisis tribulations, after being very close to the administration, JP Morgan started campaigning against some aspects of the new financial regulation. Its favorite target was the Volcker rule that restricts the type of investments banks can trade for their own account. It turned into a nasty campaign of...

I recognize to have reacted with anger and disappointment to the Court judgment on the Goldman Sachs case for which "without admitting any wrong doing", Goldman Sachs paid a $550 million fine. The hypocritical statement that has become a protection against civil suits has landed billions of dollars...

Over the last decades, a number of initiatives taken by various U.S. administrations on both sides of the aisle have raised concerns about the actual legality of the extraterritoriality attached to laws imposed by the United States of America on other jurisdictions around the world, often using "political persuasion" rather...

History will say that the two criteria of the Maastricht Treaty were improvised by a group of economists during a long night and never seriously analyzed. While I have no problem with the indebtedness limit of 60 percent, since it is the result of a multi-year series of public finance...

With the announcement that the attempts by the Democrats to form a government have been derailed by what the Economist characterizes as two clowns, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Beppe Grillo, the situation in Italy gets more dangerous.